Sad to have missed this news earlier — a lararium north of the Alps!!! We have so much more to learn about domestic religious practices in the Roman world

There are so many things I should be doing, but I've started chipping away at redrawing the patterns I did for the Chapman Historical Museum more than ten years ago. They're not bad, but they could be better, you know? chapmanmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/WebObject

An 1897 hand-colored dance film. The performers are crowded to stay in-frame but they soldier on. Dance films were popular color subjects as the moving costumes disguised any flaws in the application youtu.be/kk-pTXzQp4c

Just bought "Never Caught: The Washington's Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave" by Erica Armstrong Dunbar at @oxfamgb.bsky.social Bookshop 📚 I'd never even heard of this book until I saw @kawulf.bsky.social's post about it! It's like I summoned it by willpower ❤️

It's pancake day 🥞 Hope everyone is having a flipping great day!

At Austen conferences Mr Bennet appears to tell an over-speaker “you have delighted us long enough”

I'm a reader, rather than a listener, so I generally don't do podcasts. But this one was impossible to resist.

Happy Valentine's Day! It's also the one-year anniversary of Happy Secret's publication. Looking for a romantic read on this auspicious day? books2read.com/b/470Rd7

Anna Howard Shaw was born #OTD in 1847. Pioneering American suffragist, physician, ordained minister & one of the most influential leaders in the #womenssuffrage movement. Earned her MD (1886, only woman in her class) & one of the first women ordained as a Methodist minister in the US (1880).

In response to frequent discourse about Bernadette Banner, I went over her corset myths video and found that ... it's actually fine and completely in line with historical scholarship. 🗃️🪡 www.tumblr.com/mimicofmodes...

Most of the time they just seem to arrive. I need a character for some purpose (to be the friend, to pass along some info, to be an obstacle) and I attach a descriptor at semi-random, and then I just know exactly who they are and how they talk and what their deal is. #WritingCommunity

Prince of Persia was an experiment in rotoscoping. It put lifelike animation on '80s home computers. Designer Jordan Mechner converted VHS tapes and movie footage into pixels -- and went way beyond the tech of his time. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-the-li...

Very happy to share that my wild hunt tapestry painting for the We're Here 2024 ( @neonhemlock.bsky.social ) cover has made it into Infected By Art Vol.14!

DUMP HIM (INTO THE SEA) Mermaid Mug. 🧜‍♀️ Now available for pre-order: littleedenpottery.etsy.com/listing/4452... #pottery #art #ceramics #bsnm #handmade

Do you need a card for Saturday? This card is a classic example of a greeting card design produced in the 19th century. The poem is a sentimental verse common to "To One I Love" cards of this era. While often used for Valentine's Day, they were also exchanged as general romantic

Those imagined, thronging adoring audiences or armies to be led aren’t made up of real *people* who will need the boring logistics of how to get to meetings and how to feed people and how to arrange schedules. That is women’s work, and women’s work is normie-coded, and thus likely traitorous.

OH DAMN I loved this?!? I have heard no end of good things abt @freyamarske.bsky.social and this was deliciously weird and original and gorgeously written 🔥 MOAR PLZ

My friend Debbie wrote this great thread about the context of Surya Bonaly’s famous backflip and the history of backflips in the sport as well as Surya’s prestigious career. A large account on here decided to only read every other word and dunk post and that’s why we can’t have nice things

Look everyone we did it!

What a delight to have met this little fella in the flesh a few weeks ago! Found in northern North Holland province in 2024, the tiny 10C/11C gold and enamel fibula is thought to represent a saint or secular elite figure. Leiden, @rmoudheden.bsky.social, g 2024/3.1

Right!? I refuse to let AI machines take Good Human Jobs in things like fouling up my own footnotes with errant keystrokes, misremembered publication dates, or increasingly creative efforts at spelling Konijnendijk.

I ended up on our socials last week! Our social media manager and a consultant came to off-site storage and I showed them around a little, particularly (of course) the historic garments.

It is super weird whenever someone sets up a new Substack and I can't say I have regrets about ditching the platform at all

I have watched this seventy thousand times and plan to do so at least another seventy thousand. I need a reliable audio rip site because no version of the song comes close to this. I know that’s sacrilege to say because it’s Dolly but damn Sabrina.

We are so close to having the database migration done at work ... I have been telling everyone we're "so close" for probably close to a year now but I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW CLOSE WE ARE

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

My freelance editing schedule is booked for full manuscripts until April, but I’d love to squeeze in some query letter or partial manuscript edits before then. I have reasonable rates and 10+ years of publishing industry work experience. bookmarkobrien.com

I try to behave myself when it comes to Bridgerton because It's Not Trying To Be Accurate, but gahhhh receiving an employer's old clothes to remodel for one's own use or sell for a tidy profit was considered a very good perk in domestic service! They were worth a lot of money!

If you can't accept that monsters can make great art, you'll have a harder time believing that people who make great art can be monsters, and that's precisely how they get away with it for so long.

*uncontrollable weeping*

If you're hyped for the forthcoming Francesca storyline in #bridgerton and need more sapphic historical stories to tide you over until then, may I recommend my books in the meantime—the sweet & romantic THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET and the funny & sexy THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY!

Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.

Prepare for your mind to be blown. The oak trees that make up the Undercroft were felled in 1358. Their size and scale would suggest that they were at least 250 years old. Which means they were saplings only 40 years after the Norman Conquest in 1066. Mind. Blown. 🤯

Currently reading Fanfare for Tin Trumpets by Margery Sharp. She's always a fun, comforting read and this one features a boarding house. We do all love a boarding house novel, don't we? @deanstpress.bsky.social 💙📚

damn, I actually bought this and made one but had no idea how big this was

Very firmly closing tabs relating to my medical problem™️and promising to myself that I won't google it again today

I'm curious - if you were going to a wedding-focused exhibition at a small museum, what would you hope to see? What kind of focus/presentation would most interest you or bring you in the door?

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

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The new Harriet Powers USPS postage stamps are so moving. Featuring details from formerly enslaved Powers’s “Pictorial Quilt” of 1898, I’m so glad these stamps will bring her work & life story to more people, especially when so much Black history is being erased from the public realm right now 💌

A lot of really good analysis here as to why TV historically hasn't made shows like #HeatedRivaly. For Reasons (most of them dumb! frustrating!), TV continues to leave money on the table (aside from Hallmark etc). Not ideal! I hope the success of HR changes this however +

#TerracottaTuesday A little patch of #Roman tesserae in S choir aisle @southwarkcathedral.bsky.social, set in #TilesOnTuesday. Origins probably consigned to history/mystery, but site is over remains of thriving settlement, just over bridge from Londinium, w Roman road now exposed N of church. 🏺

This or just dumping people *in the woods* AND sending folks out w/o their phone or I.D. Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate." I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0

Here's a sneak peek at a tiny slice of the research included in my new book, THE CROWN'S SILENCE (available for pre-order now and out tomorrow, 1/27)!!! @marinerbooks.bsky.social #booksky #slaveryarchive www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

#MedievalMonday Two ribbed spiral columns from the original Romanesque church that is now Norwich Cathedral, founded by the Normans in 1096 Together they mark the spot where the original Norman altar once stood 📸 Mine #history #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

Coming soon! My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has been accepted into the Journal for #18thC studies. In it I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (including makers & suppliers) & the ways that fashion influenced her representational strategies!

Is it about time that someone told @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social that their "Tourmaline stone axe" is actually made of cheese?

I ended up discussing why KJ Charles's approach to writing romance is so compelling in my latest newsletter: buttondown.com/cassidyperco... (There's also a very cute pic of Bonnie and Clyde.)

500 words a day is probably a lot less than what Real Writers manage, but it's satisfying to have that number reliably go up ... and I feel like taking it slower is helping me avoid a "muddy middle"-type situation.